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In the United States, only motor vehicle crashes and cancer claim more lives among children 5–14 years old than do firearms.

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Harvard School of Public Health Study: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/638057/posts

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Here’s the data culled form the CDC databases on gunshot injuries and deaths in the US, in crude rate per 100,000:


In the chart above, note that "gunshot suicide" is 53,4% more common than gunshot murder by "bad guys."

In the information below, note that gunshot suicide is successful 83% of the time whereas those shot by "bad guys" only die 21% of the time.

Accidental shootings are fatal 4% of the time.
If you are shot by a bad guy, you get killed 21% of the time.
Attempts at suicide by gun that are “successful” 83% of the time.
When the cops shoot you, they kill you: 27% of the time.

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